OpenCV By Example

Building an interactive object tracker

A colorspace-based tracker gives us the freedom to track a colored object, but we are also constrained to a predefined color. What if we just want to randomly pick an object? How do we build an object tracker that can learn the characteristics of the selected object and track it automatically? This is where the CAMShift algorithm, which stands for Continuously Adaptive Meanshift, comes into the picture. It's basically an improved version of the Meanshift algorithm.

The concept of Meanshift is actually nice and simple. Let's say we select a region of interest, and we want our object tracker to track that object. In this region, we select a bunch of points based on the color histogram and compute the centroid ...